The said case involves army’s direct interference in the 1990 general elections and funding by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to certain politicians and others for blocking the Benazir Bhutto’s return to power.

The apex court has already heard this case and is now hearing the case of implementation of its earlier verdict – which requires further investigation and action by the government.

Benazir government had been dismissed by then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on a number of charges and the establishment did not want her to return through the election at any cost. The two-time Punjab chief minister Nawaz Sharif became the prime minister as result of the 1990 elections, only to be dismissed by the same president in 1993.

According to information gathered by The Nation, an amount of Rs140 million was deposited in Karachi accounts by one Younis Habib while a total of Rs6 million were distributed as directed by then Chief of Army Staff and the remaining money was transferred to a special fund.

General Durrani added to the list of recipients a few more names in his letter submitted on June 7, 1994 which included Mustafa Khar Rs2m, Hafeez Pirzada Rs3m, Sarwar Cheema Rs0.5m and Miraj Khalid Rs0.2m.

The remaining Rs80m of the total of Rs140m was either deposited in the ISI’s ‘K’ fund (Rs60m) or given to Director External Intelligence for special operations.

According to details provided by former Sindh chief of the Military Intelligence (MI) Brig (r) Hamid Saeed Akhtar on Oct 18 this year, six accounts were opened in different banks and on the directions of the MI director general the funds were remitted to different accounts, including one of GHQ (Rs40m) and regional office of MI Quetta (Rs10.5m), while Rs3.828m was sent to Sindh Regimental Centre for construction of men’s living barracks, interrogation cells and other expenses.